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THE 69F OD IS A NATURAL EVOLUTION IN PERFORMANCE YACHT DESIGN AND COMES TO APPLY THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY TO MONO-HULL ONE DESIGN RACING. WITH A CREW OF 3, IT WILL BE A WIDE APPEAL TO SAILORS FROM MANY SKILL LEVELS, AGES, AND GENDERS SEARCHING FOR FUN, FAST, AND EXCITING SAILING AT THE EDGE OF SAILING TECHNOLOGY. THE BOAT WILL BE ALSO CAPABLE TO SAIL FAST AND EASY IN CONVENTIONAL MODE WITH THE FOILS RETRACTED WHEN NECESSARY.                                                                              

Length:  6.90m //  Beam:  2.5-3.5m //  Draft:  1.70m //  Sail Area:  40m2 //  Displacement:  360kg //  Year: 2016

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69F Persico foiling monohull

€119,000

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• Reference ID 670
• Builder 69F
• Wilson-Marquinez Naval Architecture
• L.O.A. (mtr) 6.90
• Draft (mtr) 1.70
• Displacement (Kg) 380
• Material Carbon

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Our 69F is in great shape. On trolly and easy loading road trailer. With lot’s extra’s, all lines spare new, Sailmon 2x, windmeter, all tools needed and more. Selling because of ending program and focussing more on offshore sailing.

About the 69F

Persico 69F is a mono-hull foiling sailboat designed by the Argentinian firm Wilson-Marquinez to offer to the widest possible sailing public a small foiler, using a concept borrowed from the AC75, the new boat for the 36th America’s Cup. The prototype has already sailed for numerous days on Lake Garda, where it has been tested by top-ranked sailors, among whom the Olympics multiple medal-winner Santiago Lange, a living legend in the sport of sailing. Santi Lange has also taken on the initiative of starting an academy to popularize sailing on foils and train teams to participate in the new Persico 69F regattas circuit. Persico Marine’s competence in the yacht racing field is renowned at the world level. For the innovative 69F, the firm has availed itself of its specific know-how acquired from the series production of VO65s, the larger advanced high-performance One Design boats currently sailing. Moreover, on the subject of state-of-the-art one-design crafts, Persico Marine is the Official Supplier of the famous foil arms for the next America’s Cup, to be held in Auckland in 2021. These parts, which are used to keep the AC75s up on their foils, have been supplied to all teams and are absolutely identical in all respects.

The Persico 69F has been created as a strict one-design boat where the true test when racing is between crews and not boats and equipment. The fundamental objective of these rules is to ensure that this concept is maintained.

As indicated by its name, the Persico 69F is 6.90 metres in length. The canoe body is made of extremely light carbon fibre and shows a form stability that allows the new craft to fill the current gap between the highest performing displacement boats and a true foiling boat. Designed for a crew of 3, the 69F is fitted with a couple of racks with seats to facilitate handling and for a safer sailing, a V-shaped foil, a T-shaped rudder, a daggerboard system and 40 square metres of sail area (45 sqm code 0) which already at 7 knots can lift the boat’s weight of only 380 kg. If there is a mixed-gender crew, it would be possible to sail with 4 people.

Persico 69F hulls, appendages, rigs and sails are manufacturing controlled. 

• Beam: 2.1-4.6
• Sailarea 40m2
• New and better mast and boom coating
• new rack and net.

New sails from 2021

• One training and one race kite.

Electronics and Navigational Gear

• trolly 
• easy loading road trailer
• all tools needed
• covers 

The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.

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NORTH SAILS NAMED SAILMAKER TO 69F

69f partners with the world’s leading sailmaker to power the foiling class.

North Sails is proud to be named the exclusive sailmaker to the revolutionary 69F class . The 69F is the only one-design, full-foiling monohull for teams. With state-of-the-art design and construction, the 69F has introduced a one a kind of class format. This format features a six-pack charter boat program and a robust events schedule across Europe, the United States, and the Youth Foiling Gold Cup open to sailors under 25.

69F Co-Founder Giorgio Benussi commented on the partnership with North Sails :

“Bringing North Sails on board as our sailmaker is the natural next step in the evolution of the 69F. North Sails is the industry’s top player. From dinghies to maxis and now foiling, North Sails has a reputation for expertise that is renowned worldwide. We all look forward to working together, learning, and expanding the success of the 69F.”

North Technology Group President and North Sails President Ken Read:

“The 69F is a fantastic new class offering a foiling experience to many who have never experienced or may not have even considered foiling. Access for young sailors, owner drivers, pros and amateurs alike–the 69F is an all-inclusive foiling option. Today, the North Sails design tools and sail technology power the AC75, the AC40, IMOCAs, Ultimes, and dominate small foiling boats like the Moth. The 69F opens the door to so many more and helping expand the sport.”

North Sails and the 69F team have undergone sail testing in Miami to review and finalize the new sail designs. The North Sails 69F inventory consists of three sails; a 3Di Square Top Mainsail, a 3Di Helix Jib, and a Helix Code Zero. In line with the objectives of the class, the 69F has a hi-tech, high-performance inventory that showcases the latest innovations from North Sails.

The first sail set under the partnership will be delivered before the start of the 2023 European season in April.

North One Design Expert Giulio Desiderato (ITA) will lead the client management and service as the primary North Sails contact for this exciting partnership. He’ll be directly supported by sail designer Mike Marshall (USA), and they’ll also draw on the broader resources within the North Sails network.

To learn more, contact [email protected] .

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When it comes to the foiling 69F, finishing first is in the detail

When you can foil in 7 knots true wind you know you are in for the ride of your life. Six identical boats, 6.9m in length, three crew and with speeds of over 33 knots: it’s going to be fast, it’s going to be thrilling, and to be the first over the finish line, may not be enough to finish first.

“When it comes to optimising a high-tech project like the new 69F Persico foiling monohull having the ability to test and measure in real time is strategic,” commented Dede De Luca, Chief Sailing Officer of the Team 69F. “The Cyclops Marine smart link is an extremely precise and useful tool which has allowed us to carry out checks and evaluations in the testing phase of the new class. Introducing IoT tools is important for the development of the entire program.” 

This is sailing to the max and pushing the boundaries, where crews are quite literally on a fine line between maximum thrill or crash and burn. smart link has enable 69F sailing to get those setting right and understand the loads so the sailors will be able to foil with confidence.

July 14 – 19 will see six boats go head to head on Lake Garda as part of the Persico 69F Cup, where the overall positions will be calculated by finishing positions as well as other performance metrics, measured electronically.

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First-Time Foiler

• By Herb McCormick
• September 13, 2022

Back in the day, when I ­captained my college football team (cue up Springsteen’s “Glory Days”), I always felt a little nervous during the ritual of pulling on the pads, when the adrenaline and butterflies started to simultaneously stir. Last July, I’m having a deja-vu moment of that particularly unpleasant sensation as I’m handed a helmet, wetsuit, rash guard and life jacket moments before heading out for my first-ever attempt at helming a foiling craft, the Persico 69F. The name is derived from the boat’s 6.9-meter length (which translates to 22 feet, 7 inches).

The fledgling one-design class’s welcoming motto is “foiling for everyone,” a notion I am definitely about to put to the test.

After a pair of previous winter events in Miami for a half-dozen international “youth teams” (25 and younger) and an appearance at South Carolina’s Charleston Race Week, the 69F roadshow has rolled into Newport, Rhode Island, as part of the New York Yacht Club’s Race Week. This is the fourth stop on the American 69F opening season’s stateside circuit. Still ahead is a mixed series with the NYYC; an event in Halifax, Nova Scotia; and the grand finale in Pensacola, Florida, the 69F Cup presented by American Magic. That makes sense because the 69F is purportedly the only other crewed foiling monohull outside of the America’s Cup.

The 69F ringleader in the United States is Miami-based Alex Sastre, a sailing-crazed yacht broker and promoter (a separate 69F European circuit is under different management). Sastre’s 69F mantra is simple: “We are training the next generation of sailors.” But he’s also organizing foiling academies for adults outside of the youth initiative, presumably for numbskulls like me.

One of Sastre’s right-hand guys, a very patient young man from Italy named Pietro Luca who has drawn the unlucky straw of taking me out, gave me a 69F once-over: the pre-preg carbon construction (the boat is built in Italy by Persico Marine), the square-topped mainsail, the V-shaped lifting foils, the T-shaped rudder, the lifting fin and so on, and finally, the handhold for gripping while steering. “Very important,” he says. It’s pretty much the only thing I can concentrate on.

Assuming the helm, with the sails still down and no warning, Sastre tows us out to Narragansett Bay on a big RIB doing Crazy Ivan at about 25 knots, which of course gets us up and foiling immediately, and is easily one of the most terrifying and unexpected moments of my life. “Just follow the outboard!” Luca shouts helpfully.

And then the sails go up. I start to slide up onto the rack, at which time I sky the 10-foot-long tiller extension—which careens us off on a broad reach and into a capsize. Approximately 20 seconds into my initial fling at foiling, we are swimming. Sheesh, how embarrassing. Given the circumstances, Luca is much gentler and more understanding than I would’ve been. Grazie , Pietro.

With a 12-knot southwesterly sea breeze filling in, we shake ourselves off, get everything and everyone back on their feet, sheet it all home and, holy smokes… “Here we go,” Luca says. “You’re up. You’re flying!” 

Every sport, at every level, needs a face, someone recognizable to make it personal and relatable. The next day, spearing around the 69F racecourse riding shotgun with Sastre on the RIB, my connection to the real foilers who actually know what they are doing is personified by a diminutive Hawaiian sailor named CJ Perez. At 5-foot-4, Perez is slight in stature but casts a huge shadow over her fellow competitors. At one point, we grab a young Swedish sailor to transfer from one boat to another, and we ask him who in the fleet he is looking out for. “That would pretty much be CJ,” he says.

The New York YC race committee has commandeered the southern half of the bay for its race circles, so the six-boat 69F fleet is towed (with dispatch) to race just north of the Newport Bridge. It takes a while for the sea breeze to fill, but once it does we are joined by more foilers—a flurry of Moths and a trio of Nacra 17s—all zipping around with the 69F skiffs. Point proven for Sastre. “This is what I said! This is the newest generation of sailors!” he beams.

There are six races ­scheduled for the day, with the first three laid out on a triangle course as the first wisps of the new southerly darken the waters. Before long, there is a solid breeze. Even a dunce like me understands that with foiling boats, the longer you’re on the foils, the better your odds to, ahem, foil the competition. And the dude from Sweden is correct: On this day, nobody is more dialed in than CJ Perez.

It’s no wonder. At 18, with three years of competitive sailing under her belt, she’s nothing less than a prodigy, a two-time world champion in the O’pen Bic class; the 2021 US national champ in the Waszp foiler; and the first American female to win a race on the SailGP circuit, which she did in Cadiz, Spain, last year aboard Team USA.

On my unofficial scorecard (these are preliminary training races, with the real ones scheduled for later in the week), Perez takes a close second in the first race, then absolutely crushes everyone in the next two. Nobody can match her skills getting airborne and ­staying there.

The race committee relocates the circle and sets up a quadrilateral-shaped course for the final trio of matches, which unfortunately concur with the dying of the breeze. That means the 69Fs plod around the course in mainly displacement mode, considerably leveling the playing field. Once grounded, Perez finishes those three contests in middling fashion.

Afterward, I catch up with her on the beach, where she is derigging the boat, and ask how she got involved with the 69F.

“I saw it on Instagram. I thought it was super cool,” she says, echoing Sastre’s remarks that the class has a huge presence on social media and uses it for both promotion and recruitment. Kids these days, right?

She’s pretty happy with her performance in the first three races, not so much in the final three. But she shrugs it off, mentioning that she is missing her regular flight controller, and her two crewmates weighed in at about 40 kilos apiece. Her competitors, some of which have three crew aboard, have a distinct weight advantage in displacement conditions.

“It’s so hard on foiling boats when you don’t foil,” she says. “Just super frustrating. When you have more flying time than everyone else, you’ll be in front.”

She makes it sound easy.

That said, Perez makes no secret about her ambitions. “I’m a foiler,” she says, making it clear that the concept of being a mere sailor wasn’t a major priority. “And I’m here because I want to be part of a team and learn to work with a team. In the future, I want to race in SailGP and the America’s Cup, which is all about teamwork. This is a stepping stone.”

Then she’s back to work. And I am left with the distinct impression we’ll all be hearing a lot more about Perez down the line.

We are trucking. At least, in my world. I catch 17.4 on a quick glance at the speedo before my attention is drawn constantly elsewhere. (Sadly, I later learn the top speed recorded in a 69F is 34 knots, twice what I thought was epic.)

But enough about the future; back to my own first moments of flight. I’ll admit a trained chimp could’ve handled my job because Luca and a young woman from Argentina handle all the necessary flight controls. The one thing I have going for me is that I’ve tacked out of Narragansett Bay on a summer southwesterly a million times, so once we get the whole show up and running, I can pick out a landmark near all the old familiar Narragansett Bay shoreside attractions (Castle Hill, Beavertail) and aim directly for it. Still, things seem to be happening quickly. Luca’s instructions, after chiding me not to oversteer (more swimming was not on his agenda), are along the lines of what you might hear in a gym from a personal trainer: “Up! Down! Up! Down!”

But we are trucking. At least, in my world. I catch 17.4 on a quick glance at the speedo before my attention is drawn constantly elsewhere. (Sadly, I later learn the top speed recorded in a 69F is 34 knots, twice what I thought was epic.) At the mouth of the bay, off Castle Hill, the incoming breeze and outgoing current kick up some pretty good seas, and I catch more than one complete wall of water to the kisser. Good, wet times.

I will confess to being a bit chagrined when I later saw the photos of me steering from inside the boat, with a death grip on the handhold because I was terrified of losing control of the tiller if I again attempted to scoot out on the rack. But still, like mountain climbers who summit Everest and take a snapshot at the top, it’s proof of foiling.

Near Beavertail, a local ­hotshot sailor and friend of mine, Glenn Walters, swaps driving positions with me, and I’ll admit that the conditions are considerably more gnarly for him. But when they capsize soon after, I am somewhat relieved. Once ashore, I thank Walters for making me feel better, and he snaps, “I wasn’t driving then.”

OK, sorry bud.

As it happens, I run into the 69er squad at a downtown Newport joint called Pour Judgement later that night. Yes, I’ve been celebrating my mastery of foiling. And here I’d like to remind everyone that even small victories are victories. As in, with sheepish smiles all around, Sastre says to me, “I asked them which one of you was the best driver, you or Glenn. And they say you are the funniest…”

Always enjoy those tiny wins, my friends. So, foiling for everyone, eh? If nothing else, regarding that motto, I consider myself a living example.

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THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION THAT ORGANIZES THE ONLY ONE-DESIGN, FULL FOILING, MONOHULL SERIES FOR TEAMS

The 69F Class was founded on June 7, 2021 . The whole fleet counts on 28 boats, they are in Europe and Asia. The Class is aware it does not respond to the 7 boats per 4 continents requires by World Sailing , but 69F business plan is different, as different was the concept at its birth. The idea is to have moving fleets owned by the managing company, for a sustainable and lasting concept and to be able to reach good racing fleet number early in the boat life. Like 69F has proudly been doing since the very start.

2019 was the year during which 69F has been tested on water and had gone through final adjustment , while the rules were being written by Marco Mercuriali and Miguel Allen, our pillars for the on water umpiring .

In 2020, we held four test events, mainly on lake Garda. 51 teams tried the boat at those test events and we can proudly say that 90% of them confirmed their preference and were back in 2021 , some for the Persico 69F Cup and some for the Youth Foiling Gold Cup.

51 teams in 2020 – 4 TEST events

During this time plenty of top-level professional sailors helped adjusting the boat, like Olympic Champions Santiago Lange, Ruggero Tita, and America’s Cup sailor like Francesco Bruni . They all loved the experience and gave 69F Team important feedback to put in place both for boat handling and the format.

45 teams in 2021 – 12 events (YFGC, 69F Cup, PRO Cup)

45 teams in 2022 – 19 events (YFGC, 69F Cup Europe, 69F Cup USA, 69F US Select Series)

41 teams in 2023 – 13 events (YFGC, WFGC, 69F Cup Europe, 69F US Select Series)

69F Cup and Youth Foiling Gold Cup (YFGC) are the two main circuits, up and running since 2021 .

The YFGC is aimed at sailors under the age of 26 with a woman onboard – but often there are only female teams – and includes training days, qualification, and knock-out rounds. At the YFGC the boats are provided by 69F, and teams take turns with a three-day qualification round and two days of finals . The entry fee is reduced , the boats prepared by the 69F team , and the winner is the best on the water, playing on a equal field where only sailing talent and the athletes’ skills matters . The series includes three events in Europe, with a Grand Final for the best two teams of each event to be held in Barcelona, Spain, in November at the end of the season. The YFGC has been a huge success since the very first regatta, as the Persico 69F truly embodies what young sailors are looking for: foiling, speed, adrenaline, and tight competition .

The 69F Cup is open to everyone , you can attend with your own boat or rent one with the easy ‘ Pay per Play’ formula , in which the boat is provided and prepared by 69F team, and if in need, some training is available and some 69F sailors can be included in the crew. This formula allowed the 69F Cup to immediately have big fleets of over 10 boats per event and to respect the sustainability principle that was in the 69F project since its creation . There should be no boats in a shed, all 69F should be on the water.

The WFGC, starting from the 2024 season, becomes a 2-stage circuit at the express request of the strong crews who took part in the 2023 test event and those who, due to the limited number of available slots, did not have the opportunity to participate.

The JFGC arises from the requests of the youngest to compete on equal terms with their peers. In 2024, there will be a test event, followed by the establishment in the following years of a full-fledged circuit just like the other YFGC and WFGC circuits.

In 2021 a PRO Cup took place in Palermo, Italy, an invitational challenge reserved to Pro sailors , where athletes from the Olympics and America’s Cup challenged each other on the boats provided by 69F. The experiment was a success.

69F owns two fleets of six boats . Available for the Pay-per-Play formula to easy the access to newcomers and to respond to sustainability matters linked to building the boats and moving the boats around the globe.

In Europe there are ten privately owned boats and six in Asia .

69F global project’s goal is to have local fleets around the world in which we can recreate the same business model as we now have in Europe. A 1:3 ratio between privately owned boats and Coming Solutions’s fleet, will allow competitive and participated circuits in a much more sustainable way. Both for the environment and for the sailors . The boat is a state-of-the-art design and technology machine, in full carbon, able to foil at just seven knots, it is much easier for an owner or a sailing team to put together a budget to charter their spot for the season, rather than adventuring in an expensive, and in some cases, unknown foiling project. The purchase of the vessel can follow a season or more of good sailing.

The Youth Foiling Gold Cup, the Women Foiling Gold Cup and the Junior Foiling Gold Cup have a very little entry fee, below the actual cost of the operation, by doing this 69F is proudly contributing to the promotion of foiling among the youngsters.

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